HISTORY

OF THE

BRITISH COLONIES.

BY

R. MONTGOMERY MARTIN, F.S.S.

MEMBER OF THE ASIATIC' AND OF THE

BENGAL.

MEDICAL AND PHYSICAL' SOCIETIES OF
AUTHOR OF TAXATION OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE,' of the
'POLITICAL, FINANCIAL, AND COMMERCIAL CONDITION OF THE
ANGLO-EASTERN EMPIRE,' &c. &c.

IN FIVE VOLUMES.

VOLUME III.

POSSESSIONS IN NORTH AMERICA.

'FAR as the breeze can bear-the billows foam-
SURVEY OUR EMPIRE!'

LONDON:

JAMES COCHRANE AND CO.

11, WATERLOO PLACE, PALL MALL.

MDCCCXXXIV.